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I started my engineering career with Oracle 9i and remember the experienced engineers mentioning index skip scans were a big deal! I didn't know better back then other than that the "i" in 9i stood for "Internet" and that gearing up for the internet era was a big deal

Andy's recaps are always fun! My takeaway from this is that SQL is (still) not going anywhere and if you're an OLAP or NoSQL database technology that doesn't support SQL, your days may be numbered

@jayalammar.bsky.social and @maartengr.bsky.social put in great effort to make such comprehensive visual explanations and have them come to life in colour. The counterfeit literally pales in comparison. Accept no substitutes and be safe shoppers out there

The finish of the cover was too glossy compared to my other O'Reilly books and the cat was out of the bag once I leafed through to find the whole book was in monochrome!

The usual rules apply. If a book is priced too cheaply, it's probably a counterfeit, so don't pay attention to those. I paid close to full price on Amazon for O'Reilly's Hands-On Large Language Models and received this

Textbook page on embedding models with an example of a cat, all in monochrome

Same textbook page on embedding models with an example of a cat, all in colour

Textbook page on bag of words explained visually, all in monochrome

Same textbook page on bag of words explained visually, all in colour

Be vigilant when buying books for your loved ones during the holiday season. Counterfeiters are also getting into AI engineering and LLMs!

You will be visited by three spirits

IBM Is the Perfect Home for Confluent Betting on streaming data as the lifeblood of enterprise generative AI

My thoughts on IBM acquiring Confluent (coming at you from Mountain View)

Waiting for them to resurrect the one in Cornwall 💯🙏🏽

Focusing on creating best in class primitives is always the right choice in this uncertain world

Post-AI companies that go from zero to AI may eventually find out they didn’t add enough engineering rigour. Pre-AI companies that go from product to AI product may eventually find out they didn’t have the right foundations

😎 The team also had the great idea of keeping the prizes (Meta Ray-Bans) in full view so the hackers remember it's a competition with huge stakes. Looking forward to judging the winners at the end of the day

🇺🇸 Got to hand it to the design team for these stickers with our favourite American classics (and a reminder to use the Lenses MCP server — launching soon).

🗽 We are live at the Real-Time Data AI Hackathon with Lenses.io x Amazon Web Services (AWS) x Ness Digital Engineering, enjoying the creativity and views.

Yes can vouch for it. They’ve been in business for years and years and one of the better sources of licensed animation. What are you going to watch?

Yes! It was lovely to meet you. May you always find good 🍦

Nick Aldrich from @awscloud.bsky.social showing us what's next for async tool calls in MCP (though I think an event-driven agent approach with ephemeral clients is the way). There will be improvements in client-polling. Follow and contribute to it in SEP-1391 github.com/modelcontext... #MCPDevSummit

That is a rather ominously large Doctor's bag. I wonder what's inside 🤔

They've solved most standard OAuth use cases but fine-grained auth is still unsolved, with Dynamic Client Registration the most challenging. The next spec release's focus is on structured outputs, asynchronous tasks, statelessness and server identity.

Looking forward to the new spec on 25 November!

Full house at the #MCPDevSummit morning keynotes. Great seeing David Soria Parra from @anthropic.com telling us the story so far: 10,000+ integrations built by the community in the 10 months since the MCP launch.

🫡 I salute @workos.bsky.social for providing secure auth for MCP servers and also their commitment to swag at #MCPDevSummit

T-shirt with rap group RUN DMC's logo changed to RUN MCP

I'm heading to the MCP Developers Summit tomorrow. Who else will I see there?

Really looking forward to the keynotes, spec updates (OAuth in particular) and war stories from MCP in production. Also quietly hoping for swag of this magnitude 🤞🏽 @mcpdevsummit.ai

You’re never alone at #PyData. Love this little group we’ve built up and stoked that all the talks today are from the local community.

Kicking off the end of summer meetup in an hour. Looking forward to catching up with the regulars and welcoming the newcomers to Python Data Land 🤙🏽

Yes! Paul is one of the best in the business on these topics

Go away or I will replace you with a very small vibe-coded shell script

I feel bad for anyone that suffers from those asshole reply guys but it’s so sweet when women support each other, call it out and dish out fourth-degree burns

a man is laying on the ground in a warehouse surrounded by boxes including one that says seven ALT: a man is laying on the ground in a warehouse surrounded by boxes including one that says seven

Every time I come across a missing library in Zig (or any library for that matter), I mutter under my breath, “Don’t make me vibe code. You wouldn’t like me when I vibe code”

Enjoyed a lovely pint on Roger Daltrey’s estate (it absolutely pissed it down 2 mins later)

I felt a great disturbance in the Force... YouTube video by QuoteTheGuy

During the announcement, I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of CFO’s voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

Copilot support in Excel has been added by @microsoft.com. The joke is that most of a company’s data is in Excel, so how can you do the most damage to a company’s financial reporting? You enable vibe spreadsheeting 🔥